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Cutter, Alert

1755

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Cutter, Alert

1755

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Pedometer by Benjamin Grey

1755

Quarter-repeating watch by Thomas Mudge

1755

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Model of Persian wheel with chain of pots

1754

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Wooden model consisting of water wheel and treadmill in common frame

1753

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Circular bronze medal

1754

Silver medal to commemorate the opening of the theatre of the Surgical Society

1753

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal, bronze, commemorating L.J.M.

1755

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Model: submersible brass mesh cage

before 1753

Carpenter's sliding joint-rule by I Trafford

1772

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Arithmetical medal and numerical pocket piece

1753